Topic: relapse

If you notice any of these signs, it’s a good idea to make an appointment right away, talk to your group leader before/after a group session, or bring them up in your support or step group.

In urban areas, in fact, it may be easier for a high schooler to get marijuana than alcohol.

Relapse doesn’t mean failure, but it does mean a great deal of pain and effort.

A big fine, for instance, isn’t necessarily a better deterrent than a lesser one that is administered quickly and effectively.

Our longstanding practice of branding anyone who drank again a ‘failure’ kept us from recognizing very real success right under our noses.

Would have been easy enough to avoid, had I seen it coming. Unfortunately the brain I was using to make decisions was the addicted one. It was not a friend to recovery.

We want to make sure the alcoholic person learns the right lesson from experience.

You can be firm and still leave room for someone in authority to make an exception.

Doesn’t seem to matter much whether fame is rooted in music, film, TV, sports, politics — there’s this sense of unreality to all of it.

The trick is to find another reward to replace the one that’s no longer available. For instance, if we’re no longer going to have a cigarette with coffee after dinner, what other reward could we substitute in its place?